Sorry all..

this is my 2nd shift in last 2 years.
But I promise that this time, its for the last time.

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Well.. I was profiled in HT – Horizons (Mumbai Edn) 2 days back.. (Thanks Nazim)

 Well I am here at Microsoft, India doing a 6 week internship.

2 weeks are already over and i have leard a plathora of new things… and i’ll be sharing with you all of these.

I am working on Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation . I just got 2 assignments of wich i completed 2nd one (higher priority ) n almost done with 1st one.. Well its taking lots of time to get along with the concepts and terms of VSTF, but as u thot, its easy for me

 Will be bloggin soon.. but rite now, i have to catch Employee Bus to reach home

have a gr8 weekend…

hello all…

just wanted to tell u all that i got selected in thte interview for Microsoft MSIT Internship.
Well I’ll be joining on 18th June till 26th of July (6 weeks).

Its a wonderful opportunity and i’ll definitely give my best of my abilities and time to it.

thanks and cheers.. well no vacations for me dis time.. but m gonna work hard to realise
my dreams.. and this is just the first step towards it.

http://silverlight.net

will be starting with the technology as soon as i m done with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0…
maybe the day is not too far.. just a week away

 The new theme of the site as a tribute to Silverlight !!!

hello all…

its been a looong time since i have blogged…

well the actual reason to keep me busy was the long tiring schedule of
CSI and Imagine Cup.

Well our team Novices@Work reached the National Finals of Microsoft Imagine Cup 2007.
It was a great experience altogether.. giving some bitter and some sweet moments..

i’ll be blogging later about hte experience of IC…

one sad news :::
i m in phase of closin this blog and my site !!! well this is to give a way to the new one !!!
well i am busy with the Sem 6 exams… but have given myself a target date : 07/07/07 — well ders nothin auspicious about the date but jlt.. i m gonna build the new site in ASP.NET AJAX (well its a combined term.. previously known as ATLAS ! ) 

Also by the mean time.. gonna take out some time in learning about WPF and .NET 3.0. Hope to learn some programming of smart phone appz too.. (i neeed a phone for dat !!! )

chalo den.. if i get time.. will blog abo
  

hey.. jus refering to Prakash [;)].. i am still alive.. jus busy working on some things of life… few of them are jotted down !!!

- Imagine Cup
- http://csi-vesit.org
- ATLAS.. oops its ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
- SP project – C Editor
- OS project – Process Control Block
- http://bhavikvora.com CMS in AJAX and ASP.NET 1.1
- C#.NET 2005
- GRE ????
- ADBMS Project – Cricket World !!!
- D12 Class Placement Database Website

well theres much more to life, other than jus programming !!!
and dat i cant it out discuss here

It Rocked..
With a host of celebs and Industry eminents..and ofcourse the CEO of Microsoft Corp. – Steve Ballmer.. da whole conference rocked…

will write about it soon…
rite nw.. m xams r givin me sleepless nites..

“As a manager responsible for new hires in our department, I have had the opportunity to review several resumes. I am often distracted by poorly written resumes that make it difficult to quickly discern whether or not a candidate is qualified. Based upon my experiences, the following are a few resume writing tips that will help you to avoid common pitfalls and improve your chances of landing an interview.

You will find a distinctive difference between the advice offered here and the advice often offered by technical recruiters. Unfortunately, the majority (although not all) of head hunters peg you as a sale, and as such, any sale is a good sale. This can lead to misrepresentation, and regardless of how tantalizing your resume appears to be, promising what you fail to deliver will destroy your reputation.”

External Link

“Hello World” is the first program one usually writes when learning a new programming language. This collection includes 282 Hello World programs in many more-or-less well known programming languages, plus 47 human languages.

External Link

i was working on this part for so long.. i guess altleast 2 hrs…

its completely ready for CSI-VESIT.  its made in ASP.NET and uses emails provided by Access Database…

Online retailer Amazon.com has started taking preorders for various Windows Vista versions, which the company says will be available January 30, 2007. Not surprisingly, the prices Amazon lists for Windows Vista are quite similar to roughly equivalent Windows XP versions.

According to Amazon, the prices for Windows Vista fall like so:

Windows Vista Home Basic

Windows Vista Home Basic Full: $199.00
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade: $99.95
Windows Vista Home Basic Full (Additional License Only): $179.00
Windows Vista Home Basic Upgrade (Additional License Only): $89.95

Windows Vista Home Premium

Windows Vista Home Premium Full: $239.00
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade: $159.00
Windows Vista Home Premium Full (Additional License Only): $215.00
Windows Vista Home Premium Upgrade (Additional License Only): $143.00

Windows Vista Business

Windows Vista Business Full: $299.00
Windows Vista Business Upgrade: $199.00
Windows Vista Business Full (Additional License Only): $269.00
Windows Vista Business Upgrade (Additional License Only): $179.00

Windows Vista Ultimate

Windows Vista Ultimate Full: $399.00
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade: $259.00
Windows Vista Ultimate Full (Additional License Only): $359.00
Windows Vista Ultimate Upgrade (Additional License Only): $233.00

While not every Vista version correlates exactly with an XP product version, the pricing is inline with XP pricing. For example, XP Home is $189.00, compared to $199.99 for Vista Home Basic, while XP Home Upgrade is $89.97, just two cents off from the Vista Home Basic Upgrade.) Upsells won’t be particularly expensive, either: Pricing for the much more capable Vista Home Premium are just $40 to $60 higher than that of Home Basic.

Amazon hasn’t yet listed the box art that Microsoft will use for its retail versions of Windows Vista. Earlier this week, Microsoft Canada also slipped with a bit of Vista pricing info: The company’s Web site briefly reported that Windows Vista Ultimate would cost CN$450 in that country.

The new version of the best browser in the world, Firefox, is out. I just installed it, it’s faster, seems snappier and everything works as far as extensions except GreaseMonkey, but you can download a version from here that does work with 1.5. You can also make old extensions work with this little trick too.

Visual Studio 2005 (Already Out)….. Mind its not .NET studio….. jest extension of VS 6
Codenamed “Whidbey”

SQL Server 2005 (Already Out)
Codenamed “Yukon”

Xbox 360
Codenamed “Xenon”

Office “12″ Beta 1

The free open source database leader MySQL has some new competition from expensive enterprise database leader Oracle. The company on Monday unveiled a beta release of 10g Express Edition, otherwise known as Oracle Database XE, which is free to develop, deploy and distribute.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database
/xe/index.html

UPDATED Microsoft and Yahoo announced on Wednesday a blockbuster interoperability deal that will reshape the landscape of the fragmented instant messaging market. The companies will connect their IM networks so users on each can communicate with one another using text and voice chat free of charge.

Starting in the second quarter of 2006, customers of both services will be able to see their friends’ online presence, share emoticons, and add new contacts from either Yahoo! Messenger or MSN Messenger to their buddy list.

The agreement marks the first time major players in the highly-competitive IM industry have officially partnered up to enable cross-network communication. Interoperability has always been a hot topic among instant messaging providers, but had never yielded a compromise.

In 1999, Microsoft connected its MSN Messenger client to AOL’s AIM network – without authorization. The move let to a cat-and-mouse game of AOL cutting off its new competitor and MSN re-establishing communication with each update. Microsoft eventually gave up and focused on improving its client.

Such disparate messaging networks led to the creation of third party clients with the ability to connect to each simultaneously. AOL and others were initially critical of applications like Trillian, but eventually backed down and ceased efforts to block the newcomers.

“IM interoperability is the right thing for our customers, our businesses and the industry as a whole, and Microsoft is delighted to help lead these efforts with Yahoo,” said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in a statement.

“This is truly a turning point for the IM industry,” added Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, “and we believe our agreement with Microsoft will help usher in a new era of IP communications.”

Yahoo and Microsoft will now command upwards of 44 percent of the market, according to research firm Radicati Group, putting new pressure on market leader AOL, which holds around 56 percent market share with AIM and ICQ. And according to recent comScore Media Metrix numbers, MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger together reach 33.5 million unique users each month, more than the 23 million running AIM.

But competing with AOL is likely not the primary reason Microsoft and Yahoo have linked up. The new threat to the IM heavyweights comes from voice chat and upstarts such as Skype that have taken the communications industry by storm. Google, meanwhile, recently launched a communications client called Google Talk that focuses on simple PC-to-PC calling.

Still, a source at Yahoo expressed concern about the new partnership to BetaNews, hypothesizing that interoperability will only serve to strengthen Microsoft’s position in the market.

Recently, IM software clients have evolved to link consumers to other services beyond just chat – from blogs to search. And if users are able to message contacts on Yahoo through the MSN client bundled with Windows, it could hamper Yahoo’s efforts to reach more eyeballs.

Microsoft is also reported to be in talks with Time Warner, and a deal to open the door between MSN Messenger and AIM has been rumored. However, nothing concrete has come from the discussions thus far.

Source:::
www.betanews.com

The milestones keep coming for the little browser that could, and the Mozilla Foundation now has a new reason to celebrate: on Wednesday morning, downloads for Firefox surpassed 100 million. The second major release of Firefox, version 1.5, is due later this fall.

(10/19/2005 9:48 PM)

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